The complete works, poetry and prose, of the Rev. Edward Young prefixed, a life of the author, by John Doran ... With eight illustrations on steel, and a portrait. In two volumes

Young, Edward (1683-1765)

[VOLUME 1]

NIGHT THOUGHTS ON LIFE, DEATH, AND IMMORTALITY:

PREFACE.

THE COMPLAINT.

NIGHT I. ON LIFE, DEATH, AND IMMORTALITY.

II.

NIGHT II. ON TIME, DEATH, AND FRIENDSHIP.

III.

NIGHT III. NARCISSA.

IV.

NIGHT IV. THE CHRISTIAN TRIUMPH.

NIGHT V. THE RELAPSE.

VI.

NIGHT VI. THE INFIDEL RECLAIMED. IN TWO PARTS. CONTAINING THE NATURE, PROOF, AND IMPORTANCE OF IMMORTALITY. PART I.

[dedication]

PREFACE.

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VII.

NIGHT VII. BEING THE SECOND PART OF THE INFIDEL RECLAIMED: CONTAINING THE NATURE, PROOF, AND IMPORTANCE OF IMMORTALITY.

VIII.

NIGHT VIII. VIRTUE'S APOLOGY; OR, THE MAN OF THE WORLD ANSWERED.

THE CONSOLATION.

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II.

[VOLUME II.]

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And what a sceptre waits us! what a throne!
Her own immense appointments to compute,
Or comprehend her high prerogatives,
In this her dark minority, how toils,
How vainly pants, the human soul Divine!
Too great the bounty seems for earthly joy.
What heart but trembles at so strange a bliss?

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